rANGlBLE SHORTHAN 

SELF- INSTRUCTOR 



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CLARK'S 



TANGIBLE SHORTHAND 



INSTRUCTOR 



THE ONLY SYSTEM FREE OF WORD SIGNS 



(\ Purely Phonetic Systerr) of 100 Characters 
and 12 Rules 



BY 

FRANK CHADWICK CLARK 
AUTHOR and PUBLISHER 

KANSAS CITY, KANSAS 



LIBRARY of CONGRESS 
Two Copies Received 
JUN 25 190/ 
/7 Copyright Entry 

/GLASS CL XXC, No, 

COPY B. 



COPYRIGHTED 1907. 

BY 

FRANK CHADWICK CLARK 



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PREFACE 



A system of shorthand, to be universally adopted, 
should have an alphabet large enough to furnish a char- 
acter for each of the elementary phonetic sounds, each 
of the frequently occurring combined consonant sound, 
such as: pk, tk, fk, Ik, Is, rk, dl, pr, tr, fr, vr, lr, kr, pi, 
bl, fl, vl, rl, sp, st, sk, etc.; and of such construction 
that the vowel characters can be easily combined into 
diphthongs and digraphs, and join smoothly with con- 
sonant strokes, so that the hand may glide smoothly 
from one outline to another without deforming the char- 
acters or retarding the movement of the hand. 

In this the author feels that this system comes the 
nearest to these ideals of perfection. 

In this connection he wishes to acknowledge the 
receipt of several valuable suggestions from Rev. J. E. 
Wherrell and other students of the system. 



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This book commences dictation with the 
sixth page of the Shorthand Instructor, 
and contains corresponding reading and 
writing matter that leads into the most 
difficult court work. 

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This book is purchased with the understanding that 
every student of this system must study a book of his 
own. 

The system must not be modified, changed, or improv- 
ed only by and with the consent of its author. 



INTRODUCTION. 



All mankind express themselves by the use of articulate 
sounds. 

These sounds are combined in different ways, by the human 
race, to record what we call words, and expressed by characters 
that represent elementary sounds which we call letters. 

Should every race of the human family use the same charac- 
ters to express the same sounds, less than fifty characters would 
record every elementary sound in existence. 

But, on the contrary, the English Language, especially the 
American branch of it, is made up of every other lang-uag-e in ex- 
istence; each. of which have their peculiar sounds for the letters or 
the characters they use to express themselves. 

Therefore, by the efforts of our educators to express foreign 
words so that both the Eng-lishman and the foreigner may recog- 
nize the same, we have introduced into our language such a multi- 
plied form of spelling, that it has become and is becoming exceed- 
ingly burdensome. 

From the French, we have "eau" for the spelling of long "o"; 
from the Spanish, we get a character like this, " n " for the sound 
of kt nefih , \ and this, "11" for the sound of "leuh", and from the 
German, we have "ei" for long "i" and "ie" for long "e". 



2 Clark's Tangible Shorthand 

Thereby, "a", has nine; "e", seven; 4 'i" five; "o'\ seven, and 
"u" six different sounds. 

They each have several different ways by which their sounds 
may be spelled; as, long- "o" may be spelled, "eau, ow, oh, owe, eo, 
oe, ough", and "o", followed by a consonant, requires an "e" to 
distinguish the long- from the short "o" 

This necessitates the abandonment of the whole English Al- 
phabet and the adoption of independent characters to represent 
these elementary sounds for shorthand work; as, The word "beau" 
has but two sounds— -"beh v_ '' and oh c " and are written this 
way " ( (beau or bow) 1 '. 

This process of shorthand becomes exceedingly simple when a 
student gets entirely away from the old form of spelling while 
writing shorthand and simply records the sound [not those of the 
English Alphabet] that he has heard in the word spoken, and 
learns to dissolve^words into their elementary sounds. 



Vowels. 



Lesson One. 

Speak the word "now" slowly (n-o-w) and notice — not the 
name of each letter — but each of the sounds that compose the word. 
Now notice that opposite each sound is recorded the character that 
represents that sound in this word il n/ o w w o ". They are joined 
this way " <£" (now). 

Notice that without the M / (nV character or sound the diph- 
thong- M o (ow)" remains 

In this way, analyze the following- words, determine their 
vowel sounds and commit their outlines: 



Now 6 


, «ow 





, ow or ou 


O 


boy L, 


, boy 


J 


oy 


or 


oi 


J 


Ed ^ n 


, Ed 









e 


o 


day ^ --^ 


, day 


O 






a 


p 


is o 


i W 


o 






1 





seen { 


, seew 


, 


y 


or 


e 


* 


not I 


, wo/ 


V-' 1 


a 


or 


o 


v^ 


by (^ 


. *y 


^ 






T 


// 


Utes -\_/7 


, Ules 


^ 






u 


o 


who 1^ 


» ^/'P. 


^ t 


w 


or 


00 


n 


could ^^v 


, could 




w 


or 


00 


) 


run ^^~~* 


, Hi// 


-> i 






u 


D 


at ^_y 


, a/ 


y . 






a 


/ 


Paul S 


, /W 


I , 


aw 


or 


au 


I 


Poe *Sc 


, Poe 


C , 






o 


c 



Collect These Vowels and Study Them. 
They should be traced with a dry pen (not a pencil) fifty times 
and the name of each character should be spoken aloud each time 
it is retraced; then with a sharp pencil, with as lig"ht a pressure as 
possible, they should be recorded accurately in a tablet twenty 
times, with the mind on the work. 

Vowels. 
Ou oy e a T e (or y) o I u do (or w) oo (or w) u a aw o. 



4 Vowels Combined, 

Lesson Two. 

The vowels are put together in different ways to record com- 
bined vowel sounds; as, "away" has two sounds: "o C " and tl ao " 
and is written this way, " 6 (away)"; ''Iowa 11 consists of four 

sounds, " b e o a ", and is written this way, kt ^ (Iowa)". 
o • c o 
As the "w" has either the long- or the short sound of "oo", the 

characters that represent them are used for the "w". Wherever 
w is used with any vowel the more convenient of these two char- 
acters is joined to that vowel character; as, kk weh" may be written 
this way, " 'o "or this way, " 9 (commencing at the bottom to 
write it)" while "way" would be written this way li 3 (way)," 
(commencing at the top to write it)". 

Retrace these characters with a dry pen fifty times, while 
speaking the sounds that compose the outlines and the name of 
each character as you write it. 

we or we, way, wl, we or we, wo, wy, woo, woo, wu, wa, wau, wo 



As i4 y" at the beginning of a word has the sound of tl e " the 
two are recorded with the same character. 

Retrace these characters, as per instructions above and accur- 
ately record all vowel combinations in a tablet twenty times, as 
lightly as you can touch the paper. 

V, — W _ ^ _ ._ ^ ^w — 

ye, yea, yi, ye, yo, yi, you, yooh, yu, ya, yaw yeo. 

O O «? » ^ ^ £\ Q oZ/JlC 

H, ob, u, e and other indistinct sounds may sometimes be 
omitted for convenience as, k 1?ave, en^/gh 1 '. 

PREFIX: " u " shaded may be used for the prefix "super" as, 
k 'super-use 'V/' 



Vowels Shaded. 5 

Lesson Three. 

The sounds of kk s, z, sh or tion 11 may be added to these vowels 
by bearing- heavier upon the pen or pencil while writing- them; 
thereby making the ontlines blacker (if unshaded characters are 
written with a very light pressure, shading will be easily done); as 
follows, " O (a)" changed to ' k q (say or ace) 1 ' by shading. 

With a dry pen, retrace shaded outlines as per former instruc- 
tions, being careful that the shading is neatly done. 

These words are produced by the above process. 

Say, ace, is, see, sea, ease, sigh, ice, eyes, Sioux, use, sue, 

us, as, saw, so, sow, owes, ocean, was, ways, sways, issue, wish 
;> / I < C C C IB a ^ "> 

a-so-see-ation association. owes-ition. osition. 

/ C • O "t> Co € 

Figures following words are used to indicate the page on 
which some rule, stroke, prefix or outline can be used for the re- 
cording of such words; as on page 15, can be found the instruc- 
tions for recording the prefix "dis"; on page 22, instructions for 
expressing "p" or "b" which would change "dis" to "disp", and on 
this page (5), the outline for the syllables "osition. It is indicated 
this way "disposition 15-22-5". 

Exercises for Practice. 

I would oppose 3-22-5 the 6 composition 29-22-5, as to 6 your 
6 supposition 5-22-5 as an 6 imposition 32-22-5. 

You say you saw us on 6 the ocean; was I on the ocean when 
8-32you saw us or 6 was I on the sea? 



6 Familiar Words. 

Lesson Four. 

Now, if the work has been done thoroughly, the student is 
ready to use the words produced by former lessons in dictation 
exercise. 

Summary of the Words Produced. 

i a a a a ^> o /l !£ * q g 



Add to this list the following- list of frequently occurring words; 
retrace them fifty times and write them in your tablet twenty 
times, exactly like copy. 



And, on, of, have, for, are, would, or, all, in, will, the, any, at 
do it, to. 



Add the following words; "to, the, do or would" to an outline 
by shading its consonants stroke; "to, the, do or would". Adjust 
"in" toother outlines. 



And the, on the, of the, have to, for the, are the, or to 

_^ Z \ LA \ — — 

the two, to the. it would, in to the, in the, in an 

< — s ^=> <^ ^^ <r^ /£_ 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Will Wood was in the wood and saw the ice I was to saw and 
weigh. The ice was in the sea by 11 the wood and 1 saw a Sioux 
on the way to the sea to saw the ice for Will Orr. An eye of the 
Sioux was on the two saws, our 13 wood-saw and your ice-saw. 

Oh, you say vVill Orr will sue the Sioux for the use of the 
saws? The Sioux owes us, also, and all the Sioux owes us is due. 



Vowels Applied. 7 

Si Wood is in Iowa and he 9 will have to see us, as we are on 
the way to our 13 associations in Iowa. 

Would you wish to see Si and say to him 32 all you say to us. 

Would you use the wood we saw and weigh or will you have to 
saw and weigh the wood you are to use? 

We are to have the wood and ice Will Orr is to saw and weigh. 
Would the wood do you? 

You say you are in Iowa and have the wood saw. Will Orr 
will have to use it 9 to saw the ice for the association. I wish you 
would say to your association, "as you are away, you will have us 
see to the wood the association is to use." 



Sin p'/c Co 11 son a n ts . 



Lesson Five. 

There are four lengths 



characters, which if written ^ vA^ 

must commence one-half way 



l^X 



_ of consonant 

dow n war d 

. between ruled 



lines and extend downward their relative length. 

If written upward, they must go up their 

relative lengths from base line of writing. )*-J~~J—^ , 

If curved, must curve at all points (deeply); if inclined forward, 

must go forward as far as they go up M (Y ~^fO^^ or down; 

if written parallel, may be written almost any place unless followed 
by an upright character, in which case they should be written one- 
half way v, — <± _± between ruled lines. 

Consonants have no sound of their own, and can only be vocal- 
ly expressed by the use of the essence of some vowel sound. They 
indicate the position or shape of the mouth while uttering some 
vowel sound, and therefore can only be termed modifiers of vowel 
sounds. We associate the sound of £, ob or u with them to give 
expression, then speak of them as consonant sounds, but these 
vowel sounds are dropped when any other vowel character is joined; 
as "pen ^ a o " produces "pay ^p 

Practice. 

In this lesson we have the single consonant characters, and 
they should be retraced fifty times with a dry pen, then written in 
a tablet twentv times 



Peh 


beh 


^ 


veh 


\ 


"\ 


ul 

J 


er 


heh 




wheh 




keh 


x or ks 


cheh 


ieh 




geh 




queh / - 


teh 


theh 


deh 


^ 


oon 

/ 




oom /V 

// 


seh — ste 


/^ ^"\ 




r r 












/ 





Single Consonants Combinations. 9 

Lesson Six. 

All vowels must be joined to consonant characters with as 
sharp an angle as possible or by complete blending- without de- 
forming- any outline by rapid writing; Ex. v^/ Study outlines be- 
low. 

Short " e" and long ll a " are generally written the same way 
unless danger of confusion, in which case, the short 4t e " retains 
its own form. 

With a dry pen accurately retrace these combinations twenty 
times, call each outline by its right name as you do so. 

Practice for accuracy and to learn the principles. 




ilCk.WW . J A^llTV^' 




10 Single Consonants Combinations. 

Words Produced by Combinations. 

Write these words, in a tablet, twenty times, in this way: 

Write one line of words in shorthand, then write that line over and 

over until you fill the page, repeating- to yourself both the sounds 

and the word as you carefully record the outlines. This is done to 

establish a^habit for the hand to readily respond to the sound, and 

relieve it of a cramped tendency, 
i 

Ape, pay, Abe, bay, bey, obey, Fay, ale, ail, lay, e'er, ray, 
hay, whey, ache, aches, case, aich, age, jay, egg, gay, eight, 
ate, they, aid, day, nay, neigh, aim, may, stay, kiss, itch, 
it, in, pea, be, bee, eve, Eva, fee, if, eel, lea, he, ear, eke, 
key,' ekes, keys, each, eat, thee, e'en, knee, me, east, pa, 
la, 'fa, are, ox, ott, odd, on, ma, ebb, ell, ere, ex, etch, Ed. 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Dear Sir: 26 

Fay Case will have, for the aid of Abe Orr, hay, eggs, a case 
of peas, eight cases of tea, an ox and an old eel, on the lea in a day 
or two, so that Abe and Ella may eat all they wish. 

If each of you has an ear-ache or is ill you may say it is due to 
your stay on the bay the other 26 eve. 

So Abe is of age to-day? I say, Ella may kiss Abe for each 
year of his age. 

You may pay Ray for the Ape and lay the hay and the ale in- 
to the hay-mow 13. 

I shall 24 see you in a day or so, and we will row in the boat 
oh the bay. 



"C6" and "j" joined to "k". strokes. 

Lesson Seven. 

Retrace these outlines twenty times, as per instructions: 



11 



7 va.u,\\;\\ , j ± 



-^ i; 



\' / 



m 



/ s < z2. 



T 



^^UiAvw.ya^iK^o 




INSTRUCTIONS: The " ^ (cheh)" and " Q ' (j eh)" "strokes 
may be written upward to blend with the^'k" strokes; as 
li O (checks)", " r^ (check)", " O {checker 26)".' 

chicks, cheeks, chucks, chalks, chokes, object, check, chick," cheek, 

chuck, chalk, choke. 



12 Single Consonant Combination, 

Words Produced. 

Write these words in shorthand as per instructions: 

Pie, by, buy, I've, fie, isle, aisle, lie, ire, rye, high, why, Ike, tie, 
thy, thigh, I'd, die, dye, nigh, I'm, my, stye, pew, you've, few, 
view, you'll, lieu, your, you'r, rue, who, cue, accuse, chew, Jew, 
Ute, two, too, to, youth, you'd, due, dew, do, new, you'n'I, knew, 
mew, stew, up, were, us, Abbie, Al, air, ax, at, add, paw, off, all, 
law, or, raw, cause, jaw, taw, awed, thaw, gnaw, Anna, Ella, Ora, 
Etta, Eddie, Allie. 

Sentences for Dictation. . ;. 

Dear Sir: 26 

Anna, Ella, Ora and I will have Al Case, the Ute, and Abe, 
the Jew, to row us o'er the bay so that 20 we may buy two cases of 
pawpaws, a new tie for Ike, all the hay our ox will eat in a day or 
two, raw meat 20 for a stew, a pie or two and an ax for Al to cut 
wood. 

I wish I knew who that youth was whom you said 16 was an 
outlaw 13. He has two oars of ours that I let 20 him 3 have some 
two weeks 13 ago. 

I guess you will miss your old. beau, as he is now 13 on his way 
to the far 26 east, and will not be in this city again 32 for over 26 a 
year. 

We have had a few bad days this week 13, so I have not been 
30 out to see your cousin 32, 



Single Co 71 son ant Combinations. 

Lesson Eight. 



13 



Retrace these outlines and write them in . your tablet as per 
instructions: 



O 



ualww,; ;«=-iH-y?ec 




we and way 
wT and we 
wo and wi 



-V- 



^ ^ ?s 




woo, woo, wu and wa 9 



?S hJ 



o — 



wau, wo, ye, ya, yi, ye, yo, yo 

. "S^ ? S a, y <m^ 



*&^s <L < 



%t± S 



Words Produced. 

Poe, bow, foe, ole, low, oar, row, hoe, who, oak, Joe, go, quo, 
oat, toe, tow, oath, though, although, ode, doe, own, no, know, 
mow, stow, vow, allow, row, how, cow, cows, owl, our, out, ouch, 
thou, now, mow, oust, bough, boy, coy, Roy, joy, toy, oil, annoy. 

Wept, wave, waif, well, wail, wear, ware, weigher, wake, 
wage, wet, wakes, wait, weight, wet, wed, wade, weep, we've, 
wick, week, weak, witch, wick, wicks, walk, walks, wit, with, 
weed, widow, wind, window, wipe, wife, wire, watch, wad, wide 



14 Single Consonants Combinations. 

Watt, wine, wise, woof, wooer, wooing, wood, won, wool, one, 
waft, wag - , wax, wan, war, wall, was, wove, wore, woke, jell, 
Yale, yet, yes, year, yacht, yore. 

Sentences for Dictation. 
Dear Sir: 

Eight weeks ago, Joe Coy, Roy Poe and Joe Weeks, were with 
some of the vVier boys in the yacht on the bay. 

They had eight oars with them and it was well that they had, 
for their sails gave out and they had to use the oars to row the 
yacht o'er the waves. 

The waves were very high and the wind wafted them this way 
and that. 

They saw two yawls on the bay. 

The Yale boys were in the yawls, and of all the yells, the yells 
of the Yale boys were the loudest. 

Joe Wells, one of the Yale boys, that I knew, yelled, "See that 
wire! It will wind us up. Watch out! The wind will waft 
us onto it. Row this way. Now raise the sails or we will 
have to wade out. Use your wits." 

The wind soon wound the boat in the wire. It upset the boat 
and a wail went up. 



Prefixes De or Di a?id Ad. 15 

I was also in the yacht and we had to row our yacht over the 
high waves 11 to them and allow the boys to get into our yacht. 

We won in the war we waged with the waves and the wind, 
but not without wet wool. 

A wall of a wave washed away a wig- that one of the boys 
wore. He was the one that wooed Eva Weeks and had walked 
with her up and down 36 the quay, off and on, for over a year. 

We had wine, wool, wooden-ware, wax, each of us a watch, a 
wide window, a few toys, an owl, a cow, a doe, and although we 
all had to row, we did not have an oath with us. 

Prefixes. 

This tick " i (aw)" may be used for the prefixes "di or de" 
and shaded for "s n , changing them to "dis" or "des"; as, "22 * 
(dispose)", "^L> (despise)", " *\ (divide)" and *L?l2i (depot)". 

This tick " / ( a )" may be used for the prefix "ad"; as, 
(admit)", "/ (advise)". \^ 

Words Produced. 

Desire, disease, decease, dispose, despise, decide, desert, (19), 
deny, defy, Deity, desolate (19). 

Adapt, adage, adduce, adieu, adjust, adept, adopt, 
adore, (26). 



16 Shaded Vowels, 

Lesson Nine. 

Vowels and rules are applied the same to these strokes as to 

all other consonant strokes: 

less, . uns-ness, ums-mus-mes 

J. ; ' ' 

The following- words are recorded with the above strokes and 
the outlines used in lessons six, seven and eight by shading- the first 
vowel in the word for the sound of "s" before it; as, " \^ (ope)" 
would be changed to 4l V.soap"; and the following vowel or the 
vowel at the end of a word shaded for the sound of "s, z, sh or 
tion' 1 following that vowel; as, " \, ( fS )" would be changed to 
" V (fSs, fash or fashion)''. 

Practice. 

Write these words in shorthand in jour tablet as follows: 
Carefully write a full line of their outlines, then endeavor to im- 
prove upon these outlines as you read and write them over and over 
for ten consecutive times; then fill another line and do likewise; 
then another and another until you have written all of these words 
ten times apiece. 

Write as rapidly as you can, but be careful to make straight 
lines straight, curved lines well curved, and all the right length 
and the right slant or direction. 

Words Produced. 

Sells, sails, sales, sills, seals, soles, souls, soils, less, lace, list, 
lease, leases, luscious, loose, lasses, losses, lotion. 

Sense, sins, since, scenes, seams, psalms, signs, sons, science, 
assumes, sums, aims, alms, mess, ness, necessary, ( ^ — •), necessi- 
ty, necessitate, Messrs, maize, amaze, miss, misses, mistress (26), 
mice, nice, muse, master, nieces, niece, mister, news, mass, moss, 
nose, knows, most (19), Moses, mouse, noise, annoys, misery. 



Shaded Vowels. 17 

. Pace, pays, base, bays, safe, save, face, phase, sell, cell, sail, 
sale, race, raise, ration, oration, haze, sake, case, sex, sakes, sage, 
osage, set, saith, said, Sadie, sane, seine, same, case, chess, chase, 
occasion, Jess, guess, gaze, daze, nation, stays, station. 

Sip, abyss, sieve, fizz, sill, .silly, sear, his, whizz, sick, kiss, 
six, kisses, 'tis, this, sin (32), fish, 'bation, 'bition, addition, 
edition, mission, omission. - 

Seep, piece, peace, peas, fees, seal, cell, seek, keys, seeks, 
cheese, siege, seat, tease, these (use "s" stroke), thesis, seed, 
knees, seen, seem, seam, cease, suite. 

Sop, pa's, fob, boss, bosh, sock, socks, sot, sod, ma's, psalm. 

Pies, buys, lies, sire, rise, rice, whys, site, sight, cite, ties, 
scythe, thighs, side, sighed, dies, dice, dyes, sign, size, sighs. 

Soup, pews, abuse, books, fuse, lose, sewer, ruse, hues, whose, 
accuse, choose, Jews, juice, goose, suit, twos, sooth, sues, sued, 
dues, dews, assume, stews. 

Sup, puss, push, sub, 'bus, bush r fuzz, fuss, sur', sir ( ( 26), 

rush, Russian, bush, suck, such. 

Sap, pass, passion, bass, cash, fashion, Sallie, lash, rash, has, 
hash, sack, Cass, cash, sag, gas, gash, mash, paws, pause, 
boss, soft, Saul, Ross, cause, jaws, gauze, sought, taws, thaws, 
sawed. 

Soap, oppose, position, possession, sup, possesses, posy, bows, 
beaux, sofa, foes, sole, soul, soar, sower, rows, rose, arose, rosy, 
hoes, hose, soak, soaks, cosy, choose, goes, quotient, toes, those, 
dose, sown, motion. 

Boughs, bows, vows, allows, arouse, house, cows. 

Poise, boys, Roys, caution, choice, joys, joice, toys, swell, 
sweat, sweet, swear, suage, swayed, swain, swift, swill, switch, 
swim, swoon, Swede, swept, swab, swallow, wasp, swine, swan, 
swam. "Rule 

Reversed hook at the end of a stroke records the following 4 4 s, 
sli, Uoja"; as "sips V-> ," " section °^ " 

Sips, seeps, sops, sobs, auction, walks, waves, saves, safes, sets, 
sits, seats, sights, worse, yours* ours, sours, soars. 



18 Shaded Words. 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Dear Sir (26): 

It will be necessary for one of us to be at the sale, for, as our 
sons are to assume the mass of losses to be sustained (32) on laces, 
we must (ms shaded) have a list of it. 

Messrs Moses and Sells aim to buy most of the notions and 
will lease the house to sell all they buy right (19) there (26) at a 
high price (26). 

Alice Reece read an oration on the occasion of the admission of 
Jesse Keys to their (26) association. 

Are you not (19) sorry for Miss Maise? We saw Miss Maise 
with the Misses Case at the mission two days ago. Mister Sam 
Moses says he is amazed that Miss Maise does not have the alms. 

We had (19) no occasion to buy any cheese, sage, keys, fish, 
rice, socks, or other (26) rations when (32) we were out on the 
ocean. 

Saul Sawyer said he saw bees sip sap that seeped out of the 
old oak at the gash you cut in the oak with your ax. 

Sarah Reece is in possession of an oration that Sallie Russ and 
Sarah sold to Miss Lizzie Pease, who is in position to buy it, as 
Lizzie had sufficient cash to do so. 

The Sioux will sweep the house, swab the window sash, 

switch the boys, swallow the rice, swim the Kaw, seize the noose 

that you saw sail in the air, and sound the question you are about 
to ask. 

Dave Rose bought six dozen scythes, two heads of cheese, 
eight pies, one piece of lace and a fish. 



> \adcd ( onsonauls, in 

Lesson Ten. 

I ng words are recorded with the outlines used in 
less ns six, seven and eight by shading the consonant stroke; as 
folk ij (j) " is changed to"paid or pate lo "• But if two 

rds have a tendency to cunfuse that have the same outline, the 
one shaded for the handier stroke may be recorded by using the 
stroke instead of shading: as. "pot ^^ and pod v^ ^ 



Words Produced; 

Apt, wept. aped. pet. pate. paid. pit. peat. pot. pod. pawed, 

pode, pout, ebbed, webbed, wiped, bet. bed. bate, bade, bit. 

, beat, beet. bead. bot. bite, abide, beauty, boot, booty, but. bud, 
bat. bad. bought, about, boat, abode, bowed, Boyd. 

Aft, waft, waved, viewed, vat. vote, vowed, void, avoid, fed, 
fate, fade. tit. feet, feed, light, defied, feud. food, foot, fat. fad, 
fought. 

Ult. alter, altar, welt, weld, wilt, willed, walled, let, led. late, 
lady, laid, lit, lid. lead, lot. light, lied. loot. lad. lawed, laud. load. 
aloud, Lloyd. 

Aired, art. wert, wired, word, ward, wart, worth, read, red, 
raid. rate. writ. rid. read, rot, rod, rite, wright. right, write, ride, 
root, rood, rude. rut. rat. wrought, rote, wrote, rode. road. 

Head. hate. hit. hid. heat, heed, hot. hod, hight, hide, hoot, 
1. hut, hat, had. hood. whet. whit, wheat, what, white. 

Act, eked, walked. Kate. kit. kid. keyed, cot, cod-fish, kite, 
:ut, cud, cat. caught, coat, code, cowed, coved. 

Cheat, chat, jet, jade, jot. jide, Jude. get. gait. gate. got. God, 
guide, good, gad, goat, goad, quit, quite, quote, quod. 

Tot. tight, tied, tide, toot, tut, taught, taut. toad, toyed. 

Thought, they'd, that, thawed, aided, added, wedded, wr.ded, 
weeded, wadded, debt, date, did, ditto, deed, dot, died, dite, dude, 
cud. dad, dote, dcubL 



20 Shaded Consonants. 

End, aunt, ant, owned, went, waned, wind, weened, want, 
wand, wind, wound, net, Ned, knit, neat, need, not, knot, nod, 
night, knight, nut, naught, gnawed, note. 

Met, made, mit, amid, meet, meat, mead, mite, mute, might, 
moot, mood, mud, mat, mad, Maude, mote, mode. 

State, staid, stayed, stewed, stowed, stout. 

Sipped, seeped, sopped, sapped, supped, soaped, pest, swopped, 
paste, pieced, pots, pods, pushed, passed, past, paused, post, posed, 
sobbed, swabbed, bates, baste, best, bets, beds, bits, bids, beets, 
beast, beats, abides, beauties, boots, butts, buds, bats, boost, bust, 
bossed, boast. 

Vest, vast, vats, votes, fits, fist, feast, feats, feeds, fights, 
feuds, fussed, fast, fats, fads, faust. 

Leads, least, laced, list, loosed, last, lost, loads. 

Rest, raced, wrist, writs, rods, writes, rights, rides, roots, 
routs, routes, ruts, roast, roads. 

Hist, host, hats, whist, kissed, (use ks stroke), cost, caused 
(use ks stroke), coast. 

Chest, chased, chaste, jest, just, guessed, guest, gust, ghost, 
quest, question, swae-ged. 

Test, taste, toast, thoughts, dust, debts, dates, deeds, nest, 
most, motes, must, (use ms stroke), states. 



Shaded Consonants, 21 

Sentences for Dictation. 

On or about the 5th day of August, I, Will R. Lloyd, saw Joe 
Boyd buy of Si Reed a load of new hay, that said Reed had Roy K 
Haight cut for him on the low lea a few days before. Boyd paid 
said Reed the sum of "2. 85" for it and sold the same to Ora Case 
for * 4 8.52" that same day. 

I know that said Reed has not paid said Haight for the hay he 
cut, and said Reed said he would not pay him. 

I saw said Reed buy some wheat with what he got for the hay, 
but I do not know who bought the hay of Joe Boyd. 

I do know that said Boyd bought a boat and two oars with 
what he got for the hay, and now he rows us o'er the bay to our 
house each day. 

We pay him for this and now he has enough to pay for a cow, 
an ox and a case of eggs he got of Fay East. 

Last week he went out and said he would be away for a year 
or two. He said that he had sold all he had to Ella Gate. 

I do not know the lasses who were with Al Wier, but Sarah 
Gates said they were Eva, Kittie, Louise, and Abbie Sells. 

Roy Weeks and wife bowed to us as they passed on the way to 
the quay, where they were to get into a boat for a sail o'er the 
waves of old ocean. 



22 Written Below the Line. 

Lesson Eleven. 

These words are recorded by writing- the outlines below the 
line of writing to express the sound of "p" or "b", and the phrases 
are formed either by shading the consonant strokes of the outlines 
for the words: "to, the, do, or would 1 ' or by writing the outline 
below the ruled line of writing to express the following words, 
"be, to be" or "up". 

Record the following words in shorthand ten times as per 
former instructions. 

Rep-reb, mp-mb. yS These strokes are valuable. 



Words Produced. 

Peep, pipe, pup, pope, pass up, put up, babe, bib, bub, Bap- 
tist. February, fib, fob, foppish, lip, leap, lop, loop, elope, lap, 
liberty, library, write up, read up, wrote up, rest up, wrought up, 
raise up, read up. 

Repeat, rasp, rip, rib, rebate, rebid, ripe, rob, Rube, re- 
but, rub, rebought, report, robe, rope, reposed, repast, nap, may 
be, Emperor, map, mop, mope. 

Hip, heep, hop, hub, hoop, hops, hope, happy, whip, cape, 
kept, Cabe, keep, copy, cob, coop, cub, cop, cub, cap, cope, cab, 
chip, cheap, chop, chubby, job, Joppa, jab, Job, gap, gab, equip, 
equipped, tape, tip, top, type-writer, tube, tub, tab, tabby, tipped, 
knob, neighbor, nip, nab, step, steep, stop, stoop, stab, made to be, 
might be, apt to be, about to be, to be, to be the, would be, if Yd 
be, if you'd be, if we'd be, if 4 eM be, if 'a'd be, youVe to be ("you" 
and "we" are adjusted to the stroke) we've to be, are to be, you'r to 
be, we'r-to be, were to be, were you to be, were I to be, were we to 
be, right to be, write to be, wrote to be, your right to be, you 
wrote to be, we wrote to be, our right to be, raised 

to be, arise to be, arose to be, has to be, had to be, I had to be, you 



Written Beloiv the Line. 23 

had to be, we bad to be, could be, you could be, I could be, caused 
to be, it'd be, each l d be, just to be, got to be, get to be, go to be, 
at the, at this, at that, that is to be, is this to be, ought to be, 
said to be, with that to be, with this to be, I'm to be, sent to be, 
you'll I'd be, of that, if this, of these (use s stroke), of those, for 
that, for this, for it, for these (use a stroke), for those. 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Wool was sold at the house, but it was well said that Will 
Wright did not get the wool, although the boy bought it. A boy 
laid it on the quay and the waves bore it out to sea, and "thou art 
the boy." 

Ray Abbott laid a new side-walk for us, to pay for the wood- 
ware he bought of us. 

Bob peeped in and saw the pope lay his pipe on top of an old 
tub. This was last February. He saw a fob that lay on the library. 
He bit his lips and in the lapse of an hour he had the fob, but just 
as he went to hop out of the window his foot caught and he fell in- 
to a heap, so the pope now has hopes that the boy will be good. 

Once before, the pope lost a cup, a cab, and a cap that it is said 
the boy got and kept. 

Some say it is of no use to cope with the boy; it would be well 
to give him a cheap ax and have him chop wood. 

He went to Joppa one day equipped with a type-writer, when 
some one jabbed a knife into it and caused him to lose his job. 

Someone gave him a tip and with it he bought a top. He 
thought he hit a tabby cat with the top (that was when he had a 
cat-nap). 

His papa bought a map for him and he mopped it in the mud, 
but when he stooped to step upon the step he had to stop. 



24 Strokes Beginning With li S r K 

Lesson Twelve. 

Shaded vowels are not joined to the beginning* of these strokes, 
nor are they used to record words having a vowel sound between 
their initial "S' 1 and a following consonant sound; but otherwise 
vowels and rules are applied the same to these strokes as to all 
other consonant characters. 

The "heh", ''her", "huP and "wheh" strokes may be used 
after vowel characters instead of sheh, sher, shel and shen or shem 
to express these sounds, as, " 4 (ash)", " ~^X (cashier)", 

iw - 1 (commercial)," \ 

Air of these strokes are written downward except "speh" and 
"sub". 

"Aw" following an upright stroke may be substituted with 

Retrace these strokes fifty times as you call each by their right 
names, then write them twenty times, and write these words in 
shorthand, as per former instructions, ten times. 

The "sub" stroke may be written in any position to record that 
prefix. 



sher, sheh, shel, 



i 



shen-shem, sker, skeh, sleh, sneh-smeh 



r 



shep, speh-sub. 



} 



( 



Words Produced. 

Share, shear, shire, sure, shore, shower, shirt, shared, short, 
sharp, shay, she, shy, shoo, shoe, pshaw, Shaw, show, shed, shade 
shot, shod, shoot, shut, shad, shout. 

Shep, shape, ship, shop, shipped, ships. 

Shell, shale, shall, shalt, shoal, shelled, shame, sheen, shine, 
shun, sham, shone, shanty, sharp, shabby. 

Scar, scare, secure, score, scour, scarce, screw, skirt, skate, sky, 
scow, Scott, scoot, scat, scout, script, scrape, scribe, ascribe, ask, 
subscription, subscribe, scrub, scrape, escape, skip, scoop, scope, 
scab. 

Slight, sleigh, slide, sled, slid, slice, slate, sleet, sluice, slat, 
slept, sleep, slop, sloop, slap, slope, snow, snout, smite, smut, 
smooth, smote, snap, snipe, snoop. 



Strokes Beginning With "S 25 

Space, spade, spaced, speed,. 'Spit, spot, spy, spice, spies, spite, 
spied, espied, espouse, suppose, spout. 

I shall be, you shall be, we shall be (you and we should curve 
from right to left), I should be, we shall be, we should be, asharae 
to be. 

Sentences for Dictation. 

We spied a spy on the spot where we met the supposed spouse 
of Will Reed, He was in a spat with Reed about the speed of a 
gnu as it sped by us, and in spite of us they got into a spat— a 
fight. Will Reed's wife was scared by the spies that scoured the 
woods for a scout. There were a score of spies. 

The chief spy was a scribe and a scrub in size. He it was 
that got into a scrap with Reed. 

The shire has a short shore of the sea, and I'm sure he would 
share it with us if we wish to fish. We have had a shower all day 
and have had no snow, so fishing would be good. 

Should you shoot the bass the shire would shut you out of his 
share of the shore. 

We shall show you the shale shore where a shell lit yesterday 
(26). The sun shone all day and will shine yet today. 

Do not shun the slight old sleigh, for we may ride o'er the 
sleet and snow and see the boys coast with their new sleds. 

The sleet is smooth and Smith says he will go with us as soon 
as he shuts his shop. 

The air is very sharp and the sheep will shiver if allowed to 
sleep out of the shed, and you know the shed is in bad shape. 
They slept out last night and if you let them sleep out tonight I 
shall slap you. 

We did not see a sloop, we saw a ship as we were on the slopes 
of the shore. 

Eat that slaw and do not be so slow about it. 



26 Strokes Ending in "/f^ 

Lesson Thirteen. 

Vowels and rules are applied the same to these strokes as to 
all other strokes, but as they have two or more sounds, following 
vowels may be recorded at the end of the stroke and read either 
before or after the "r" sound; as, 4k ^ (fire or fry ).*' 

See "Practice" pages 8 and 16. 
Br, pr, vr-fr, qr, gr, jr, chr, kr, hr. rar, nr, 

l— <— \ ?C_C £= 

spr, sr-str, Ir, I thr, dr, tr. 

_c= _z_ 



Words Produced: 

Weeper, sweeper, wiper, sapper, supper, pair, pear, pare, peer, 
pier, pure, poor, pur, per, pert, part, port, parse, purse, pore, pour, 
power, pretty, prate, parade, press, praise, priest, pry, pries, pride, 
price, prose, proud, party, apart, sabre, sober, Webber, Bert, bear, 
bar, buyer, Boor, Burr, bare, bower, board, abroad, bread, breath, 
braid, breed, bright, bride, brute, brood, bruise, brat, brass, 
brought, broad, brayed, brace, breast, brush, browse. 

Sever, savor, ever, every, weaver, very, vary, safer, cipher, 
suffer, sapphire, offer, over, wafer, fair, fare, fear, far, fire, fewer, 
fur, for, fore, farce, first, fry, Friday, frow, fret, Fred, fresh, 
phrase, afraid, freight, free, freeze, frieze, froze, frost, fraught, 
fright, affright, fruit, frat, fraud. 

Cellar, seller, celery, sealer, salary, solar, lair, layer, lure, al- L 
lure, lower, lawyer, letter (read the "t' 1 by shading before the "r" 
sound). 



Strokes Ending in 44 /T 27 

Hare, here, hear, higher, hire, hewer, whoVe, her, hair, where, 
whirr. 

Sicker, seeker, sucker, weaker, Walker, care, car, cure, core, 
cower, cry, crow, court, crest, caress, craze, Christ, cries, cruse, 
crust, cross, carouse, crate, crude, kraut., 

Cheer, char, chart, chair, etcher, wager, jeer, jar, jury, eager, 
gray, sugar, cigar, augur, grew, grate, great, grade, grace, grist, 
grit, greet, Greece, greed, grass, gross, grouse, girth, growth, 
gourd, guard, queer, quart. 

Eater, otter, outer, utter, wetter, waiter, water, sweater, 
sweeter, setter, suitor, tare, tray, tire, try, tour. 

True, tear, tower, tried, trait, trade, trace, treat, trees, trot, 
trod, trite, truce, trust, trout. 

Either, ether, other, author, weather, wither, southern, (30), 
there, their, threat, thread, thorough, through, thrice, thrust, 
throat, throw. 

Dread, dried, dry, drew, draught, drouth, adder, odor, wider, 
dear, deer, dire, door, dower, dirt, dared, durst, dress, dross, ad- 
dress. 

Inner, honor, owner, winner, near, nigher, . newer, an- hour, 
mayor, mere, mar, mire, mower, mpre, assayer. 

Stair, steer, Esther, Easter, astor, western, Worcester, star, 
stir, store, start, stray, strait, strew, straight, straw, strut, start. 

Spare, spear, spar, spire, spur, aspire, spray, spree, spry, 
sprite, spruce, spread, spurt, spirit, sprout. 



28 Strokes Ending hi 4 '/? V 

Sentences for Dictation. 

It appears that Will bought eight pears for you to pare. The 
price of the pears was below par, but they were too high for the 
poor to buy. 

You may eat part of each pear, but if you wish pure pear pies, 
you should not eat what you pare, but pour the pared parts into a 
pair of pots; one for you and one for your "pard/' 

We were on the pier as a sloop sailed into port. On board one 
of the ships, wa9 a bird that was brought here from Great Britain. 
The buyers of the bird were Bart Barber and Albert Bruce. The 
Captain said it was not proper for them to keep the bird on board 
the ship. 

The upper part of the ship was; not for freight and every one 
feared to have the bird kept in the lower part of the ship as it 
might affright at every passer-by. 

When pressed to do so, the boys paid the fare for four, al- 
though fewer were with them. Heretofore, every boy had his pass 
free, but for fear they would be put off, and that they were far 
from shore, when pressed, they paid their fare, also, so that the 
Captain would not be so sharp with them. 

Fred had freight on board and could not afford to have it put 
off on some isle. 



Reversed Vowels, 29 

Vowels may be recorded or joined the opposite way from which 
they are joined in lessons six, seven and eight to record the sound 
of r, rg, rk, rj, or rch at the end of a word; as, pr ay V__o changed 
to prayer A — Q past V^ changed to pastor or pasture V^/ . 

Words Produced. 

Vero-e, forge, forage, large, larger (use lr stroke), clerk, 
Clark, clergy, lethargy, dollar. 

Passer, patter, pastor, pasture, poser, poster, better, bitter, 
bidder, butter, budder, batter, Buster, fetter, feather, fester, fitter, 
feeder, fodder, father, fighter, February, fatter, faster, foster, 
lesser, ledger, later, litter, lister, leader, leaser, rare, rear, roar, 
racer, eraser, redder", reader, rider, writer, rudder, rather, roaster, 
header, hater, hitter, history, heater, hotter, whiter, hatter, cater, 
Kaiser, cuter, cutter, coaster. 

Chatter, chaser, chowder, gester, tester, taster, tatter, totter, 
tighter, tutor, tither, tosser, toaster, debtor, dotter, messer, mast- 
er, stutter, scatter, shatter, smatter, shelter, sheller, shorter/pray- 
er, prior, bearer, brier, brewer, breeder, brighter, brother, fritter, 
fretter, friar, freighter, fruiter, fairer, farther, further, herder, 
Carter, Charter, crater, tracer, northern, (32), trotter, traitor, 
dresser, dryer, Drury, drawer. 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Fred Porter made a trade with his pastor, Mr. Carter, who 
had a deer in his pasture that Fred would have at all hazards. 

Fred loaded a cart with carrots, cherries, large sprigs of 
spruce and fir, brought them to his pastor and said, they were 
prayers of his father; but he knew not how to bring it to his mind, 
that he would trade these for the deer when his father had said 
that he should not say he wanted the deer. 

This brought tears to his eyes, but just as he shut the door of 
his pastor's house the deer saw the spruce and firs and started for 
them. 

The pastor threw a spear at the spry deer and said the boy 
-night have the deer. 



30 Pre, per, pur, pro, por and gra. 

Prefixes and Syllables. 

This tick u x v may be used for the prefixes "pre, per, pur, 
pro or por; the "pre pur or per" before or under the beginning of 
outlines and "pro or por*' over or after the beginning of outlines; 
as, purpose-—, propose——, preface v \ and produce ,> ^ g 

The pen or pencil may be lifted to express the intervening 
"gra" or "gre";as, con-gre-gation *£ , photo-gra-ph\ and tele- 
gram v,.^^^/^ 4). \ 

Words Produced. 

Photographic, photographer, phonograph, mimeograph, tele- 
graph, logogram, lithograph, lexograph, geographic, photography, 
segregate, congregate, aggregate. 

Propose, probate, prepare, purpose, purport, proper, property, 
propriety, preparation, appropriation, approbate, provide, preface, 
pervade, previous, provision, prelate, prelude, preferred, purchase, 
progress, present, premise, promise, predisposed, (15), promote, 
produce. 

Sentences for Practice. 

We shall prepare to photograph the property you have congre- 
gated for your purpose, for you have a lithograph, a geography, a 
mimeograph, a telegram, and a phonograph that you have no right 
to appropriate. 

We propose to know your purpose in appropriating these pro- 
visions to your own use. 

Had you purchased this property you would produce the evi- 
dence and not put us off on promises this way. 

Previous to your prelude or preface in your geography we see 
where some one wrote a name (32), and itwas not your name either, 



Strokes Ending in N or M. <31 

Lesson Fourteen. 

Vowels and rules are applied the same to these strokes as to 
all other consonant characters. 

See ''Practice 11 on pages 8 and 16. 

mn-mm-nm-nn kn-km 

downward 






Words Produced. 

Wren, rain, reign, rein, rim, ream, rum, run, room, ram, 
Rhone, Rome, roam, Rhine, rhyme, rent, rents, rend, rant, round, 
around, errand. 

Men, moan, main, Maine, memory, memoir, mam, mum, mend, 
ment, amend, mint, mince, mints, manned, mined, mind, moon, 
moaned, amount, immense, noon, mound, none, unknown, Nancy, 
known, noun, name, numb, Cain, cane, kin, keen, kine, coon, cone, 
come, comb, kent, kind, count, account, can, can not. 

Any curve may be increased to a half circle to express the fol- 
lowing- 44 n" or "m" sounds; as, tenvv done f x gent C . 

Words Produced. 

Pun, bun, bump, learn, lesson, lend, lump, lumber, cousin, 
chum, chump, gentleman, gum, gun ten, ton, tun, tempt, trump, 
turn, terms, thump, thumb, them, from, done, dump, dumb, stem, 
stump. 

Print, primp, prince, prompt, prime, prune, prance, prone. 

Brain, brim, brine, bruin, broom, brand, brawn, brown. 

Churn, charm, germ, adjourn, Jerome, grain, grin, grim, 
green, grind, groom, grunt, Grundy, grand, grant, grandma, 
grammar, grown, groan, ground, groin. 

Sentences for Dictation. 

When the men were out in the forest, one of their boys was 
bit by a snake. One of the men ran to a stream, got some mud to 
absorb the poison, another got a dock-weed, bruised it and put 
that on the wound; another man had him take (44) some wine; an- 
other some rum. Then they carried him to his room, where he 
could look (44) out at the moon-light. (This was about noon). 

The boy's papa was very mum, as the boy was quite numb, and 
he did not want the boy's mamma to know it; but, when the boy 
came to his senses, his papa came in and let her know all about it 
— bought the boy a can of fruit, and, jn less than nine days the 
boy was out* 



32 Circles Changed to Loops. 

Lesson Fifteen. 

All circles may be elongated or changed to loops to express the 
following 4t n" or "m" sounds; between consonant sounds, the 
sound of do, u or e need not be expressed; as, '* \ (eff), 1 ' 4k ^ 
(enough) 1 ', "^ (interest)", " v ^ :? (ten) , \ 4i v ^(tame) n . 

These loops are adjusted in such a way as to point in the di- 
rection of the Stroke; as, v ^(to) changed to "s^y(into)", '^— ^ 

(the)", changed to '^-^(in the)". 

Thev may be shaded, also, the same as vowels; as, %i ^ (simi- 
lar)", l% ^ (invention). 

Words Produced. 

Impatient, impede, impute, imputation, imposition, impious, 
impose, imbed, embody, imbued, invest, invite, invitation, (circle 
"a" out from the "i" hook), invade, in view, invent, invention, in 
fashion, inlet, inless, inlaid, enlighten, aimless, symposium, simple 
(39), Enright, in wrought, enroot, inronr, in his, in what, in 
white, incase, encase, sink, inch, inches, cinch, injustice, inquest, 
inquisition, into, entice, in the, in that, in this, in these (s stroke), 
in those, enthuse, enthused. 

In debt, induce, indeed, indict, endow, in state, instead, insti- 
tution. 

Pen, pension, pin, pain, pent, pains, panes, paints, Ben, bend, 
bent, Bain, been, bin, vent, invention, vein, fame, vane, vim, lame, 
lean, limb, limp, limit, lint, liniment, written, hem, hen, hame, 
him, hymn, hint, hence, hemmed, kin, came, keen, cousin, chain, 
chin, chintz, gent, gin, Jim, Jean, gain, again, against, quaint, ac- 
quaint, quince, queen. 

Ten, tempt, attempt, attain, tin, Tim, team, then, thin, 
theme, den, Dane, dame, dim, deem, Dean, dent, indent, Indian, 
dents, dense, name, main, stem, stain, stead, stint, limp, hemp, 
whence. 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Ben Kain, Kansas City, Kansas, came into the pen, wherein, 
Lem Lane, his cousin, kept his ponies and asked Lem to loan them 
to him for ten days. This Lem said he would do in case Ben re- 
turned the loan with interest that he, Lem, had let him have 
eighteen years before. 



Circles Changed to Loops. 33 

To this Ben said, "I thought you were a friend of mine and 
would not mention that, as you know I have had hard enough 
time, having (44) had to spend every cent I could get to feed my kin 
and send Jim and Jane to school." "Well", said Lem, "you may 
paint my barn on the other farm, if you do not use paint that is too 
thin. If you'll use white lead and linseed oil, not too thin, you 
may paint enough to pay for paint, oil, loan, interest and ponies." 

"When shall I begin?" said Ben. "In my position, my sup- 
position is that your request is an imposition, and you cannot en- 
force it. If you will get an invoice and credit me with my just 
dues, you will find that a part of your income is mine." 



As soon as Alice Crew came off board the ship, Fred Ford 
hired a cab for her to ride to her house near the shore, one street 
to the north. He then went to the court house, got a street-car to 
his house at the lower end of the city and tried to persuade his 
brother, who is a sailor, to grade his yard, and, as soon as he 
dared, called upon Laura Gray to see if she would act as bride's 
maid, and Harry Dyer, to have him act as best man, and set the 
hour for services at 3 p. m. He then drove to Cora's house to find 
that she had gone with Nora and May Darrow to attend a fair in 
another city. This caused him to grow very cross. He got on the 
car for said city, where he met said maid and she informed the 
gentleman that he should not court her any more. 

He thought she did not care for him, but when he saw her 
cry, he tried to start a move that would spare her the embarras- 
metit of his error. 

Of all the cheers and jeers that greeted him when he got 
home, those of his brother brought the most frowns to his brow. 
An hour or two later Bert Reed brought the lass by his house. 



34 Lengthened a, azv, i and oy* 

Lesson Sixteen. 

The following 4 T' may be lengthened to express the following 
"n or m" sounds; as, tk v=> (pie)' 1 changed to 44 ^ (pine) 11 . 

The "a 11 , "aw 11 and "oy", may be lengthened to the extent of 
44 ns, ms, n, m, or mn 11 to add these sounds to their preceding vow- 
els — (in this instance 44 o" may be treated as "aw 11 ); thus, 44 
(pa)" would be changed to 44 *v (pans) 11 , " V (pan) 11 , 44 v_ (pana- 
ma)"; 44 V^, (pa) 1 V would be changed to 44 ^ (pawn or ^ond) 11 , or 
44 ^7 (palm) 11 , and 44 v^ (poy) 11 would be changed 4< v.- (point). 

• If the consonant before the vowel is shaded, the *t, th, or d" 
is read after the "n or m" sounds following lengthened '*?', but be- 
fore the 44 n or m" sounds following the 44 a, ah, aw and oy 11 sounds; 
is, 44 Vo (pint) 11 , 44 V (patent) 11 , 44 L (pant) 11 . 

Words Produced. 

Pine, pint, pines, pined, bine, binds, vine, fine, find, line, lime, 
lines, limes, hind, prime, brine, liner, frighten, whine, kine, kind, 
chime, quinine, tine, time, in time, thine, dine, dime, crime, 
miner, minor, grind, slime, spine. 

Pan, pans, palms, patent, patents', pant, panned, pants, Pana- 
ma, bands, band, van, Vance, advance, fan, fancy, fanned, famine, 
fatten, fattens, land, lands, lamb, lamp, latin, hand, Hattan, en- 
hance, shan't, shanty, handy, chance, chant, champion, jam, gand- 
er, gammon, tan, tans, than, Dan, dance, dam, stand, instance, 
hammer, Statten, brand, France, cram, cramp, grant, grammar, 
strand, trance, tramp, dram, remand, rattan, Canton, grant, 
prance, brands, grand, strands. 

Pawn, pond, palm, balm, balmy, botany, bottom, Vaughan, 
fond, lawn, calm, John, gone, Tom, dawn, prominent, from, form, 
Farm, foreign, alarm, alarms, cotton, charm, corn, corner (28), 
Normal (41), drawn, Norton, adorn, storm. 

Point, loin, coin, ioint, appointment, groin, Des Moines. 



A, f*, aw and oy lengthened. 35 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Will you see the President and enjoin upon him to appoint me 
as envoy to France? You know I can win every point, if he will 
appoint me, and as to the coin, I shall pay my own way and be en- 
joying the trip. You know I need such a trip. 

Bert and I passed through the pines. We saw a boy find a 
dime near a lime-kiln. With it he paid his fare on a street-car and 
so got to school in good time. 

We were near a grape-vine that had twined itself around a 
pine tree. From this vine we each got a pint of ripe grapes that 
we carried to a poor boy that was about to pine away. He said 
they tasted fine. Bert had a canine that whined for the grapes. 
As it whined for the grapes the poor boy had, he was kind and gave 
the canine some of his grapes. 

The poor boy had just swallowed a dose of quinine and he said 
the grapes came in good time to get the bad taste out of his mouth. 

At this instance his cousin chimed in to say that he must dine 
with them. 

As she stood behind our chairs, she thought it would be no 
crime to frighten us some by saying that the boy had too big a dose 
of quinine. 

Dan went to Baton Rouge to see about a patent for a pair of 
pants. When he got there, he learned that his friend had just 
gone to Panama, so he hired a band to ride in a van and play for 
the amusement of a champion by the name of Hammond, and 
quit? a crowd of street urchins. The "Old Gander" crowded them 
all in o one van, so that they had to stand and could not play very 
well. From there he went to Staten Island and Manhattan. In 
all of this time there was not an instance when he did not spend 
some money; and. that was, too, more than he could afford. I can- 
not say as to what he paid for the band, but I know that it was 
more than enough. 



36 OiVy tt, oo and o deepened. 

Lesson Seventeen. 

The sounds of "own or ome ( c: ), un, urn, oon, oom ( D }, 
oun, or oum ( ^ )", may be expressed as indicated in parenthesis, 
and joined to consonant strokes: as follows, " ^^ (pony)", • ^ ^ 
(untie)", V' Is (hound)", "V^ (a bound)". 

Words Produced. 

Pony, bone, bony, phone, foam, loan, loam, Rhone, Rome, 
home, cone, comb, chosen, grown, chromo, Sloan, Jones, tone, 
dome, stone, prone, borne, Loren, hone, shown. 

Pound, bound, pounce, found, round, hound, bounce, count, 
account, gown, town, thousand, down, noun, mount, mound, 
brown, frown, crown, ground, drown. 

Unpaid, unbias, unfit, unless, unread, unready, unkempt, un- 
cap, unchaste, unto, undo, untie, untied, untasted, untaught, Hun, 
fun, crumb, drum. 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Mr. Vaughan had a pet fawn that would graze for days on 
the lawn near an old pond. Mr. Vaughan was very fond of his 
fawn and hated to part with it, but, as time wore on, it dawned up- 
on him that he should pawn it for food. This he did and gave 
his bond that he would redeem it. 

When he had gone home he found in the bottom of a drawer an 
old botany and in the botany he found enough money to redeem 
the fawn. 

He went immediately to the pawn broker's office. Just before 
he got there, the pawn broker saw him and got a gun to shoot the 
fawn in order to have some fun with Vaughan, but the old chump 
jumped in front of the gun, and as he did so be jostled (41) the 
man and caused the gun to go off, so it shot him instead of "the 
fawn. This "stunt" was done so well that my chum could not see 
how it was done. 



Ozv, u, oo and o deepened. 37 

Sentences for Practice. 

Dan Jones had a dark roan Indian pony that often fed in the 
pasture near our house. 

One day we went to break some light loam soil for garden, 
and asked Dan if he would loan his pony for that purpose. This he 
kindly agreed to do, so we hitched up -the pony and went out to 
turn the sod. 

We had not gone far when we ran into a lot of bones of an old 
buffalo that had died over one hundred years before, 

When we got through that, we ran into some stone that was 
left there by Mound Builders ages ago (so papa and mamma said). 

Of the many things that we turned up was an old comb and a 
cone shaped oddity. We did not" know what it was. 

By the time we were there an hour, the pony was covered with 
white foam. 

As soon as Jones saw it, he phoned for the police (40), and by 
the tone of his voice, I thought he would have me arrested, so I 
ran up into the dome of our house and got out on the comb of the 
roof. 

He said we had unfitted the pony for use. 

This was over a year ago, and do you know, Jones says the 
debt is unpaid, and, unless we pay it soon, he will undo all we have 
done to our new home. 

He has uncased our well, untied our cows, undone our gates, 
and yet he says we are 4 'unready" to come to some agreement. 
The gates are undone most of the time anyway. 

His wife goes here and there with her hair unkempt, and do 
you know, she is so untidy, none of us will go with her. 

Oh, did we say he uncased the well? Well, it was covered 
with a stone and he uncovered it. 

I tried to dine at their house, and do you know, I had to let 
most of the food go untasted, as it was n unfit" to eat. 



3& Under, inter and enter. 

Lesson Eighteen. 

The "un" may be shaded, used for the prefix "under"; as 
" ^ -n (underwriter)". 

The "inter or enter" prefixes may be expressed by crossing 
over to the "in or en" loop at the beginning- of; an outline, as 
" X^ (interpose)", " V 7 (entertain)". But, if preferred, 
the "inter or enter" may be expressed by light or heavy dots over 
an outline; as, " ^— ^ (introduce)", " ^_-* (enterprise)". 

Words Produced. 

Underpaid, underbid, underfed, underlie, underlaid, under- 
writer, underrate, undertake, (44), undertaught, understate, under- 
stand, underhand, undergo, undergone, underscore. 

Interpose, interpret, intersperse, interbrain, intercede, inter- 
cept, interchange (44), interchain, intercedent, interclose (40), 
interclude, (40), intervene, intercourse, interdict (44), interfere, 
interference, interlace, interline, interlude, intermarry, inter- 
mediate, intermission, international, interruption, interstate. 

Sentences for Dictation, 

"All of the under-employees of our factory", said Reed, "are 
underpaid. They know it and will quit their jobs. Do you under- 
stand?" 

"You should not be undecided, but act now, or they will say 
that you are underhanded (i. e. You have no help) and that they 
cannot trust you. You do not know their underthoughts, nor 
what embarrassment you may have to undergo to get them to come 
back.' 

The underwriter said that they were underfed, and that your 
advice is undefined to them. They have undergone more than you 
know. If higher wages are undelayed, they will undoubtedly (41) 
return today. 

The cement around our house is underlaid with stone. 

3Ed Brow-n said that Jones had understated the truth. 



Trans, and con, corn, cog and cong. 39 

This *' kj (ah), character written over an outline will record 
the prefix " trans"; as, "L°-> (transpire)". 

This tick " — " may be used for the prefixes, con, com, coun, 
cog" or cong", as t<r \ (comfort)", !L«D (congress); and they may 
be shaded for "t or d"; as, " -^ (cont-inue)", " - (cond-ition)", 
M - (come)", " -^ (can)." 

When these syllables are used in the body of a word, or follow 
a very familiar word, they may be expressed by crossing a former 
stroke with one that follows the syllable; as, 4 1 ^ -^ o (the cong-ress)", 
4 .LyL (recommend)", " -^- (re-cog-nize)", " -^ (cannot)". 

Words Produced. 

Transport, transpose, transgress, transcend, transact, trans- 
mute, transitive, intransitive, transmission. 

Compose (22), comport, compact, compress, combine, confuse, 
confine, confide, convene, convention, conform, comfort, congress, 
congruity, common, concur, concord, county, country, cont-ract 
(43), cont-rary, come. 



40 Strokes ending in "/'*. 

Lesson Nineteen. 

Vowels and rules are applied the same to these strokes as tc 
all other consonant characters. 

These strokes should be written as per instruction under 
"Practice" on pages 8 and 16. 




Words Produced. 

Pell, pelt, play, plate, place, plead, pale, pail, placed, bell, 
belt, bled, bless, blest, bail, blade, blase, vail, vale, flay, fail, in- 
flate, fell, felt, felled, clay, nail, mail, hail, rail, railroad, railway, 
tail, tell, dell, daily. 

Pill, bill, bliss, built, build, fill, flit, kill, kiln, till, tilt, until, 
hill, hilt, mill, Milton, million, rill. 

Peel, plea, plead, please, plete, Beal, bleat, bleed, veal, feel, 
flea, fleet, field, cleat, real, kneel, meal, keel. 

Poll, plot, plod, blot, blossom, Vol., folly, dollar, doll, clot, 
cloud, hollow, collar, Clark, closet. 

Pile, ply, plight, applied, apply, bile, blight, viol, file, flight, 
kile, Crype, roil, Nile, tile, dial, mile, mild. 

Pool, pull, blue, blew, bull, blood, fool, full, flue, flew, flute, 
flush, flood, rule, cool, include, cult, occult, annul, mule, mull, 
tool, d^uel, dull, hull, cull, full. 

Plat, placid, blast, flat, flash, Hal, clad, class, clash. 

Paul, appall, ball, fall, fault, false, flaw, call, Claud, clause, 
claw, malt, tall, doll, hall, halt. 

Poll, pole, blow, bowl, volt, flow, float, fold, roll, coal, cold, 
colt, knowl, mole, mold, toll, told, dole, hold, bolt, bold, hole, 
whole, blown, flown, cologne, Holton. 

Plow, Dowell, bowel, blouse, vowel, foul, fowl, flout, cowl* 
cloud, towel, howl. 

Employ, employee, boil, royal, toil, doilj. 

Able, it will, civilize, cycle, disciple, you tell, world, apple, 
annul, annual, addle, saddle, awful, opal, oval, oral. 

Pearl, peril, parole, brill, barrel, brand, broil, churl, grai), 
gruel, growl, girl, quirl, querulous, quarh 



Final ly y ry and /y. 41 

Sentences for Dictation. 

I am pleased to know that Bill Buel has paid his bill at the 
store. He bought those apples and other groceries over two years 
ago, and I have not been able to get a red cent out of him. Now, 
for him to come and volunteer to pay the whole bill, I tell you, I 
feel real good about it. 

I thought I should have to get him a pass over the railroad. 

He has been plowing on the railway for some time. 

He told Miss Nellie Mills that he nailed boards on over two 
miles of fence along the railway. When he called at the store, he 
claimed that he had hauled all of those boards in one day and got 
ten dollars for the hauling (44), A tall fellow was with him and 
he said that he had haul.ed one load daily for ten days, and was 
paid by the day. 

Fully five miles of fence was put up around the field for which 
(47), he said, he hauled the boards. 

A good deal of time has flitted away since we paid him for the 
hauling (44). 



The Final Syllables "ly, ry or ty." 

The final, "ly, ry or ty" syllables may be expressed by the 
"i" circle, as, " ^(ability)", " ^(bindery)", " N .(formerly)". 

Properly, reality, mentally, sternly, fully, internally, finally, 
lively, Donnelly, chilly, sharply, slowly, neatly. 



42 The "L" hook. 

Lesson Twenty. 

A natural, narrow hook, curving* from the inside, and at the 
beginning of a consonant stroke or curve may be used to express 
the sound of "1" at the end of an outline or word; as, * V> (loyal)", 
" C (chill)". 

Words Produced. 

Lull, Lowell, loyal, while, wheel, chill, child, jell, children, 
jail, jilt, conjeal, congenial, jolt, gail, gale, glaze, glade, guilt, 
gilt, glee, glide, glue, glut, gull, guile, Gould, glass, glad, gloss, 
gall, Gault, gold, gloat, glow, quell, quail, quill, quilt, equal, 
equality, quirl. 

They'll, Stella, stale, still, stilt, steel, steal, style, stile, stool, 
stall, stole, stolen, stroll. 

Spell, spill, spile, spool, spoil, spiral, spittle, skill, scale, 
school, skillet, skull, scald, scold, scowl, .snail, smell, smile, small, 
furl, ferrule, hurl, whirl, Carrol, coral, kennel, Reynolds, curl, 
crawl, cruel, there'll, drill, dravl, droll, trail, trill, trellis, 
trial, trowel, they're all. 

Peddle, penalty, petal, penult, penal, pommel, puddle, paddle, 
panel. 

Beatle, bottle, tribunal, battle. 

Fatal, fiddle, final, futile, funnel, fumble, flannel, venal, venti- 
late, fondle. 

Level, ladel, little, libel, liability, lightly, lapel, loll. 

Rebel, reply, rabble, riddle, rattle. 

Hymnal, whittle, handle, huddle, when'll, herald, Hamilton. 

Kettle, kennel, tattle, cupola, chuckle, channel, chapel, jug- 
gle, jiggle, giggle, chattle, 

Title, topple, tidal, timely, tunnel, tantalize, total, ducal, net- 
tle, nickle (44), needle, nominal, Mabel, Mitchell, metal, meddle, 
medal, model, Michael, mutual, muddle, mantle, Mobile, 



The "L" Hook. 43 

Sentences for Dictation. 

Miss Lillie Lowell had the Wheeler children arrested and 
thrown into jaiL 

It seems that the children were seen at play on a glade near 
her house where she had lost a pair of gold glasses. 

Miss Lola Gould told her that these children would steal, and 
Stella Small said, "I know they'll steal, for they stole a spool of 
thread, a pair of gloves, a shawl and several glasses of wine from 
our school teacher last fall"; so Miss Lowell scolded them and 
made them own that they had stolen the glasses. 

The smaller one of the children only smiled, but she did not 
know what the penalty was, but when they put her in jail she 
squealed and fumbled with her flannel shawl and buckles. 

They called for legal (44) advice, and the attorney told them 
that it was only a penal offense and that it was illegal for Miss 
Lowell to put them there; that it was quite likely (44) he could get 
them out in a little while. 

He unraveled (48) his tale of woe to Nellie Hamilton, who told 
her father, the judge. 

Rachel, the older girl, chuckled when she heard what the 
attorney had said. 

A local newspaper published the account in the daily edition. 
Daniel and Mabel Donnell are the ones that tattled to the editor of 
the daily. 

Miss Stella Mitchell was more noble and did not say one word 
about the children. 



44 



Following k, g, j and ch. 

Lesson Twenty-one. 



Vowels and rules are applied the same to these strokes 
as to all other consonant characters. 

These strokes should be written as per instructions under 
"Practice" on pages 8 and 16. 

The "k, g, j and ch" sounds may be expressed by crossing- an 
outline to or from vowel circles or loops; as, " {^ (pay)" changed 
to " L^ page)" and " ^ (pane) changed to " ^ (paying), but 
if the circle or loop is shaded an extra small loop must be added 
and cross the line to add "ing"; " [^ (pace)" is changed to " J^ 
(pacing)" or 4I (o (pension)" is changed to "4o> (pensioning)". 

pk-pg-pj-pch, v-fk, v-fg, vrfj, v-fch, n-mk, n-mch 




Words Produced. 



Pick, pig, pitch, peek, peak, peach, peck, peg, opaque, page, 
puck, pug, poke, patch, pouch. 

Bake, beg, big, beak, beach, beech, bog, botch, bike, rebuke, 
book, buck, bag, bug, back, batch. 

Vogue, victory, vague, affect, effect, fake, figure, fog, fact, 
factor, factory, fag, folk, fetch, Fitch, fickle. 

Wreck, wretch, rake, rage, rick, rig, ridsre, rich, reek, reach, 
rock, ratchet, rag, rack, rook, rug, rougue, work, record, regard, 
bark, park, church, George, urge, urgent. 

Take, tick, Dick, dig, ditch, teach, dodge, Tige, dyke, duke, 
took, duck, dug, Dutch, tuck, touch, tack, tax, tag, attack, talk, 
dog, toque, attic, conduct, induct, reduction. 

Neck, make, meek, hitch, knock, notch, nook, much, match, 
machine ( ), anxious, you'n, I'k'd, nag, Madge, sing, song. 

Practice, prig, preach, approach, brake, brick, brook, brack- 
ed broke, bridge, brag, brig, brogue, breath, church, charge, 
jerk, quirk. 



Following k, gi j\ ch. 45 

Sentences for Practice. 

Dick Puck has a dog they call Tige that has a fashion of 
running out to the road and barking every time a certain Dutch 
girl, by the name of Madge, is seen to pass. 

One day she took a stick and knocked the dog over the head. 
This piqued the boys very much. 

One nudged the other, but they both liked her folks so much 
that they thought they would not dare to do anything, other than 
call the dog away, as soon as it got up. 

When the dog reached the house, they could plainly see the 
affects of the blow. They both said, "Oh, the old wretch. We 
do not want to get into a racket with her, but if she were only a 
boy we would show her a thing or two." 

Then Dick said "Her folks have no strings on me.'' So he 
stretched a long string across the path she trod, just before she 
was to pass, and at that moment a pig got out of the pen, she saw 
the pig and ran to her home. 

Dick took after the pig, and in his haste to catch it he caught 
his foot on the string and it pitched him head-long into the lake. 

After a thorough ducking, he crawled out of the water. 

They say he caught a bad cold and lay on his back for over a 
week. 

While he was sick, the girl picked straw-berries and would 
bring thein with her when she called to see how he was getting 
along with his headache. 

Words Produced. 

Hickory, hinge, haying, hazing, hating, heating, king, 
kink, keying, kissing, change, chasing, cheating, jesting, getting, 
guessing, quick, hitch, which, hedge, kick, chick, jig, Jake, 
quake, taking, making, raking, faking, staking, stake, stick, 
sticking, thick, thinking, thing, bring, bringing, brink, brick, 
bridge, praying, braying, praising, bracing, freeing, freezing, 
phrasing, courage, creating, crating, caring, .cringing, nearing, 
spring, springing, string, stringing, straying, tearing, drayirig, 
cheering, jeering, agreeing, grating, grazing, playing. 



46 Crossing from Circles and Loops. 

Words Produced. 

Potting - , podding-, rotting-, jotting-, dotting*, knotting, nod- 
ding-, parting, barring, farthing, marring, sparring, trotting, 
darting, scaring, charring, jarring, carting, guarding, plotting, 
boxing, docking, knocking, robbing 

Buying, biting, abiding, fighting, vieing, lying, writing, 
whiting, chiding, guiding, quieting, tying, dying, prying, prid- 
ing, pricing, frying, miring, spiring, trying, drying, plying, pil- 
ing, blighting, flying, roiling, tiling, delighting, rhyming, min- 
ing-, minding. 

Viewing, ruing, hewing, cooing, chewing, jewing, tewing, 
doing, enduing, mewing, stewing, brooding, fruiting, luring, al- 
luring, mooring, enduring, touring, during, strewing, pooling, 
bluing, fooling, dueling, cooling. 

Putting, butting, budding, footing, rooting, cutting, purring, 
nutting, studying, furring, learning, occurring, girting, pulling, 
fulling, flooding, hulling, culling. 

Patting, passing, padding, batting, fasting, lasting, hatting, 
casting, chatting, gadding, matting, standing, brassing, caring, 
bearing, chairing, tearing, daring, staring, tearing, faring. 

Pouring, boring, boarding, posing, lowing, rowing, hoeing, 
going, goading, towing, toasting, doting, noting, stowing, mow- 
ing, fording, affording, coring, storing, throwing, choring, 
grossing, engrossing. 

Pouting, bowing, vowing, allowing, endowing, browsing, 
crowding, sprouting, touring, plowing, toweling, toiling, 
poising. 



Intervening a, aw^ oy, ah and crw. 47 

Lesson Twenty-two, 

The sound of intervening- "a" may be expressed by moving- 
back on former consonant stroke to start the following stroke; 
as, " j (Frank)" and the sound of intervening: "aw, ah, ou 
and oy" are expressed by moving back in the opposite direction 
from which the following stroke is to be made and retrace 
while making that stroke; as, " ^ (wrong)," "n^ 3 ^ 
(Hong Kong)". J ; J 

Words Produced. 

Bank, blank, plank, Frank, Frank's, language, rank, rang, 
hang, Hanks, whang, catch, gang, tank, thank, spank, crank, 
track, flank, clank, clang, drank. 

Wrong, prong, throng, long, Hong Kong, gong, strong, ding- 
dong, belong. 

"Ex" and "Which" Expressed. 

Crossing outlines to the " e " circle at the beginning of an out- 
line will express the prefix "ex", and crossing to or from the u \ " 
circle will express the word "which" to any outline; as, " \ 

(of which)", " \ (for which)", " ^P (expect)". * 

Expense, expose, exposition, expire, expert, expand, expound, 
expression, exponent,, excel, excellent, exalt, exert, exertion, exhort, 
excuse, execute, exchange, extend, extent, extra, extradition, ex- 
treme, extort, examine, exonerate, excursion. 

Which pay, which buy, which part, which bought, which 
brought, which have, which of, for which, which freight, which 
laid, which lead, which let, which are, which were, which wrote, 
which has, which had, which could, which caught, which got, 
which thought, which did, which does, which made, which 
might be. 



48 Rfi rv ) rfr^ rfl andrvL 

Lesson Twenty-three. 

The following- strokes are very valuable and should be thor- 
oughly learned. 

Rf-rv, rfr-rvr, rfl-rvl, lf-lv. 



The "lf-lv" stroke is also used for self or selves. 

Words Produced. 

Yourself, ourselves, himself, herself, itself, myself, them- 
selves, self-advised, self-help. 

Rave, reef, rift, revise, rife, arrive, roof, rough, raft, rove, 
refer, referring, rougher, rafter, Rover, revere, reveal, revolution, 
revelation, ruffle, rifle, rival, arrival, raffle, revile, revolt, your-fa- 
of-the, referring-lo-your-fa-of-the, yours-very-truly. 



The "p, b, ch, j, g, and q" may be joined to other strokes the 
same as to the 'Win "per", with vowels written at the end and 
read between the consonant sounds. 

Words Produced. 

Proof, prove, prefer, preference, proffer, privilege, brief, 
proverb, preferable. 

Barrel, burlap, burn, baron, Byron, Bryant, break, brick, 
brook, brag, broke, brogue, breach, brave, pearl, peril, prim, primp, 
prime, print, prince, prints, principle, principal, practice, churl, 
churn, charm, church, quirk, gravel. 

Chief, chef, chafe, achieve, chaff, Jefferson, Jove, juvenile, 
gave, give, giver, governor, golf, thief, deaf, Dave, dive, dove, 
differ, deafer, diver, devil, thrift, thrifty, thrive, draft, drive, 
drove, p-lack, b-lack, b-lock, b-lake, bleak, oblige, blotch, bleach, 
pledge, plague, chicken, Jakes, Jack, juke, joke, chuckle, (11) 



Review, 49 

Lesson Twenty-four. 

As this text-book involves the principles for recording- of all 
words in the English Language, even though you may have gone 
through it quite thoroughly, it should be used as a reference book. 

In the dictation-book 5 following this >will appear numbers op- 
posite difficult words, as introduced on page five, suggesting to the 
student the principles or strokes for the better outline to record 
such word. 

The hyphen will be used between words to show what words 
may be recorded by single outlines or single set of outlines; as, 

44 3 (you-and-I-could)", 44 / (as-soon-as)" — -n . (We- 

are-to-be-in-your)". *■ l 

There are a great many frequently occurring words with 
which liberty may be used to record them, but strictly in accord- 
ance with the principles of the system; as, 44 / (and company)", 
44 - (come)", 44 ^ (can)", 44 -v (cannot)", " \ (for)". 

As the whole system is based upon but one hundred characters 
and twelve rules, they should be reviewed and practiced, constant- 

Review. 

Super (4), Superscribe, superintend, supervise, superinduce, 
superlative, supervision, supercargo, supercharge, 

Ad (15), Advise, advertise, advertiser, advertisment, advance, 
advancement, advantage, advantageous, admonish, admit, addi- 
tion, adduce. 



50 Review. 

Deordi(l5), Depend, deport, deprive, deride, derive, decry, 
detain, detest, divide, direct, decide, discount, discourse, desire, 
distribute, discourage, despise, disparage, disuse. 

Sub (24), Subscribe, subscription, subject, subordinate, sub- 
tract, sublime, subdivide, subdue, subsequent, submit, submission, 
substantial, substantiate, subtrahend. 

Pre, per, pro, por (30), Presume, permit, prudent, perhaps, 
person, preserve, prejudice, prepare, prefer, pressure, prevail, per- 
fectly, provide, purchase, process, propose, proper, probable, prom- 
inent, profit, procure, approbation, approximate. 

Con, coun, cong, cog, com (39), Conduct, confide, connect, con- 
vene, convention, convince, consequent, concern, contin- 
uation, condition, contrary, country, county, counter, congress, 
commercial, commend, commence, company, comply, competition, 
compend, compensate, commission, committee, compact, comfort, 
ombine, communicate, comparative, conceal, consult. 

Inter, enter (38), Introduce, interest, introduction, intervene, 
intercede, intermit, intercourse, interchange, intermediate, inter- 
line, interdict, intercept, interclude, interpose, interpret, interro- 
gate, interrupt, enterprise, entertain, entirely. 

Self (48), Yourself, myself, himself, herself, itself, yourselves, 
ourselves, themselves, self-instruct, self-evident, self-supporting. 

Trans (39), Transpire, transport, transact, transmit, trans- 
gress, transatlantic, transcontinental, transitive, translate. 

Gre, gra (30), Congregate, segregate, photograph, photo- 
graphic, telegraph, telegram, phonograph, lithograph, logogram. 

Ly, ry, ty (4.1) Pity, legality, pretty, handily, morally, mor- 
tality, formality, refinery, friendly, intelligently, officially, occa- 
sionally, obligingly, practicability, handsomely, influentially, ap- 
parently, exceptionally, erroneously, entirely, extremely, extra- 
ordinarily, blankly, evenly, eventually, zealously. 



Review. 51 

Syllables. 

PI or bl— Applicable, acceptable, principle, principal, re- 
deemable, estimable, commendable, probable. 

Ness, ence or ance — Firmness, hopefulness, helplessness, 
business, patience, importance, continuance. 

End, ent or ant — Recommend, minuend, subtrehend, com- 
ment, important, permanent, repent, repentance. 

Men, ment or nence — Remember, reminiscence, penman, 
argument, prominence, determination, detriment. 

Son or some— Burdensome, Henderson, Stevenson, Robert- 
son, fulsome, troublesome. 

Ive, fy or if— Belief, believe, plaintif, specify, rectify, certify, 
attractive, aggressive, instructive. 

For or ver — Before, fortune, forfeit, forewarn, preference, 
cover, recover, discover, fervor, forlorn, forward. 

Fel, ful or feet — Wonderful, dreadfully, careful, perfect, 
affect, infect. 

Less — Hopeless, aimless, helpless, worthlessness. 

Sh, sher, tial, tion or ship — Bush, cashier, martial, com- 
mercial, special, nation, oration, penmanship, worship. 

Ing, ink, ic, and age or edge— Passing, praising, thinking, 
drinking, stringing, bringing, application, milk, courage, collect, 
college, knowledge, acknowledge. 



52 Phrasing and Contracted Outlines. 

Lesson Twenty-five. 

The consonant strokes, having double and treble sounds, may 
be u^r-i as freelv for phrasing as for the recording oi long 10 

as. " v^P .trite 1" would also express "t" write". " 

would also express "if *a" 'd b* *\ or "if they would be."' V 

Search periodicals, legal documents and other good literature 
for similar phrases. Find at least five hundred su ases and 

rd them according to the principles oi the system as nc 
and briefly us possible. 

Sample Phrases. 



We have your fa. of the. We have your va fa. of the. 



Referring : :■ ycurv'a. of the. 




Which you a:.- to be. You or I could be. You and I would be 



7 



You 'r I'd be. You Y. I could be. If I could be. If you will be. 



Vv 



